Larry King has been in broadcasting for 50 years, and you've gotta give him credit for that. And so Glenn Garvin, the ace TV writer for The Miami Herald, does a nice sum-up of King's career.
But Garvin gets some juicy quotes from King, too. In the course of a wide-ranging interview, he includes King's zinger at Nancy Grace.
"Nancy Grace, I don't think she has an 'interviewing style.' She's a prosecutor. It's a prosecutorial style. Very accusatory, harpoonish. I don't think it's fair to the judicial system. I believe in the presumption of innocence. When I do a show, I make sure both sides are represented."
These harsh comments are a little bit surprising because King normally never attacks anybody. It's not that King doesn't have opinions, he has made it clear that he does. But instead, King has made a career decision to not express them. And yet here he unloads on Grace.
And of course, The King Zing is all the more surprising because Grace is his fellow CNN--CNN Headline News, close enough--TV anchor.
It'll be interesting to see how these words of King's reverberate inside Turnerland. No doubt King, 73, is past caring, but Grace will note, and remember, and prepare yet another of her harpoons.
